"Old Election," "'Lection Day" we called it, a lost holiday now, was a general training day, and it came at our most delightful season, the last of May. Lilacs and tulips were in bloom, then; and it was a picturesque fashion of the time for little girls whose parents had no flower-gardens to go around begging a bunch of lilacs, or a tulip or two. My mother always made "'Lection cake" for us on that day. It was nothing but a kind of sweetened bread with a shine of egg-and-molasses on top; but we thought it delicious.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
`I imagine it won't be possible to avoid going. Here, take it,' she said to Tania, who was pulling the loosely fitting ring off her white, slender-tipped finger. `I shall be so glad if you go. I should so like to see you at a ball.'
`Anyway, if I do go, I shall comfort myself with the thought that it's a pleasure to you.... Grisha, don't pull my hair. It's untidy enough without that,' she said, putting up a straying lock, which Grisha had been playing with. `I imagine you at the ball in lilac.'
`And why in lilac, precisely?' asked Anna, smiling. `Now, children, run along, run along.英文原著 · 《ANNA KARENINA》
Stone's absorption in his manuscript might be, her delicacy told her how precious beyond life itself that book was to him. To her relief, however, her father was eating spinach. "You must be getting near the end, I should think," proceeded Stephen. Cecilia spoke hastily: "Isn't this white lilac lovely, Dad?"
Mr. Stone looked up. "It is not white; it is really pink. The test is simple." He paused with his eyes fixed on the lilac. 'Ah!' thought Cecilia, 'now, if I can only keep him on natural science he used to be so interesting.'
"All flowers are one!" said Mr.英文原著 · 《Fraternity》
She thought little about the tragedy, which did not concern her, and lived only in her white lilac. This lilac was all in all to her; she thought only of doing her "duty" to it.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Victor Hugo》
"For whom weave we now the crown Of lilac, rose and thyme? When my hand falls lingering down Who then will bring your crown Of lilac, rose and thyme?英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
On this day arrived a servant from the Park, bringing a delicate little lilac envelope, stamped with a tiny rose, and directed to Miss Merrifield. There was another rose on the top of the lilac paper; and the writing was in a very neat hand.英文原著 · 《The Stokesley Secret》